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在blog教程里以文本方式显示状态的那一段，就是lookup表的有理解的同学来解释一下么，代码看不太明白啊

class Lookup extends CActiveRecord
{
    private static $_items=array();
 
    public static function items($type)
    {
        if(!isset(self::$_items[$type]))
            self::loadItems($type);
        return self::$_items[$type];
    }
 
    public static function item($type,$code)
    {
        if(!isset(self::$_items[$type]))
            self::loadItems($type);
        return isset(self::$_items[$type][$code]) ? self::$_items[$type][$code] : false;
    }
 
    private static function loadItems($type)
    {
        self::$_items[$type]=array();
        $models=self::model()->findAll(array(
            'condition'=>'type=:type',
            'params'=>array(':type'=>$type),
            'order'=>'position',
        ));
        foreach($models as $model)
            self::$_items[$type][$model->code]=$model->name;
    }
}